Can you spot the mussel? 🥸 The Plain Pocketbook mussel tricks fish by disguising part of its shell as a lure that looks like a small fish or other prey. When a fish tries to bite the lure, the mussel releases tiny baby mussels that attach harmlessly to the fish’s gills or fins. They stay there until they grow big enough and then drop off. These freshwater mussels have all kinds of lures, from fish-shaped to wormy, and even crawfish-like. 📸Calvin Rezac | Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
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Can you spot the mussel? 🥸 The Plain Pocketbook mussel tricks fish by disguising part of its shell as a lure that looks like a small fish or other prey. When a fish tries to bite the lure, the mussel releases tiny baby mussels that attach harmlessly to the fish’s gills or fins. They stay there until they grow big enough and then drop off. These freshwater mussels have all kinds of lures, from fish-shaped to wormy, and even crawfish-like. 📸Calvin Rezac | Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
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It’s #wildlifewednesday, and we’re introducing you to the fascinating reproductive process of the pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis ovata), which includes a short parasitic stage in a fish’s gills. The pocketbook is a mussel species native to the Ohio River basin of the United States and its major tributaries, including the Upper Tennessee River Basin of Southwest Virginia. The species spawns in the fall as stream temperatures decrease and larvae (called glochidia) are brooded by females in gill sacs
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It’s #wildlifewednesday, and we’re introducing you to the fascinating reproductive process of the pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis ovata), which includes a short parasitic stage in a fish’s gills. The pocketbook is a mussel species native to the Ohio River basin of the United States and its major tributaries, including the Upper Tennessee River Basin of Southwest Virginia. The species spawns in the fall as stream temperatures decrease and larvae (called glochidia) are brooded by females in gill sacs
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This is so cool! This video shows a plain pocketbook mussel in Big Darby Creek, Battelle-Darby Metro Park. The “lure” that this species of mussel uses looks like a fish, and other predator fish investigate and try to eat this lure, with the mussel releasing its glochidia (“baby mussels”) that immediately attach to the fish’s gills. The glochidia act like benign parasites and are then carried elsewhere, eventually detaching from the host fish. That’s how mussels get upstream. Different mussel spe
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This is so cool! This video shows a plain pocketbook mussel in Big Darby Creek, Battelle-Darby Metro Park. The “lure” that this species of mussel uses looks like a fish, and other predator fish investigate and try to eat this lure, with the mussel releasing its glochidia (“baby mussels”) that immediately attach to the fish’s gills. The glochidia act like benign parasites and are then carried elsewhere, eventually detaching from the host fish. That’s how mussels get upstream. Different mussel spe
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